Charette, Quebec

Charette
Municipality
Church Notre-Dame-des-Neiges
Location within Maskinongé RCM.
Charette Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°27′N 72°56′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
RCM	Maskinongé
Settled	c. 1875
Constituted	February 9, 1918
Government [2]
• Mayor	Claude Boulanger
• Federal riding	Berthier—Maskinongé
• Prov. riding	Maskinongé
Area [2][3]
• Total	42.20 km^2 (16.29 sq mi)
• Land	41.90 km^2 (16.18 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,034
• Density	24.7/km^2 (64/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	8.5%
• Dwellings	519
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0X 1E0
Area code	819
Highways	R-350 R-351
Website	www.municipalite -charette.ca

Charette (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɛt] ^ⓘ) is a municipality of about 1000 people located in Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada.

History

Charette is named in honour of one of its first settlers, Édouard Charette, originally from Sainte-Ursule, who built a saw mill and flour mill around 1875. In 1910, the post office opened and in 1918, the Municipality of Charette was established when the Parish of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (formed in 1914) was incorporated. Its railway station identified the place with the English name of Charette's Mills for a period of time.^[1]

On December 31, 2001, Charette was added to the Maskinongé RCM when Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality was dissolved.

Demographics

Population trend:^[4]

• Population in 2021: 1,034 (2016 to 2021 population change: 7.5%)
• Population in 2016: 953
• Population in 2011: 993
• Population in 2006: 924
• Population in 2001: 941
• Population in 1996: 962
• Population in 1991: 968

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 485 (total dwellings: 519)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0%
• French as first language: 99%
• English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 1%

List of mayors

The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Charette has had fourteen mayors.^[5] Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.

#	Mayor	Taking Office	Leaving
1	Joseph de Charette [6]	1918	1927
2	Alphonse de Charette	1927	1933
3	Hermile Gélinas	1933	1937
4	Wilfrid Bellemare [7]	1937	1939
5	Raymond Gélinas	1939	1941
6	Clément De Charette	1941	1943
7	Viatime Gélinas	1943	1945
8	Louis Lesieur	1945	1947
9	Adélard Matteau	1947	1949
3	Hermile Gélinas	1949	1951
10	Gérard Matteau	1951	1961
11	Marcel Bournival	1961	1967
12	Germain Gélinas	1967	1971
11	Marcel Bournival	1971	1995
13	Pauline St-Yves	1995	1999
14	Claude Boulanger	1999	2009
15	Guy Diamond	2009	2013 [8]
14	Claude Boulanger	2013 [9]	Current

References

1. "Charette (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
2. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Charette Archived 2014-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Charette, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec". 9 February 2022.
4. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
5. Source: Patricia Adam, Deputy General Manager of the Municipality of Charette
6. De Charette served as Mayor of Saint-Barnabé-Nord from 1907 to 1910.
7. Bellemare belonged to a group of residents who submitted a petition to the provincial legislature of Quebec in December 1917, requesting the municipal incorporation of Charette. See: Les débats de l'Assemblée législative, 14th Legislature, 2nd Session (from December 4, 1917 to February 9, 1918)
8. Martin Lafrenière, Guy Diamond quittera la mairie de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 6, 2013
9. Martin Lafrenière, Claude Boulanger veut redevenir maire de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 30, 2013

External links

• Media related to Charette, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons